It hasn't been a month since I've posted my last ible and I won't be able to post ibles on a regular basis for the next few months, but I already miss instructables :( . I'm trying to concentrate on my studies for a while but I can't. I really wanted to participate in the Zombie contest (I'm a huge fan of 'walking dead!), but it takes time to collect the materials, make something, document it to post an ible, I hope there will be more Zombie contests in the future. Anyways, just wanted to say, I'm sure I'm not the only one and I would really appreciate any suggestion and consolation so that I can stop feeling sad about missing instructables and concentrate on my studies for some time. Can't wait till my exams are over!

I entered a question about if a wired detonator with a 9 volt that is linked to steel wool would burn hot enough/long enought o ingite either aerosol or blackpowder for projects i mess with and it never appeared and idk why. Basicaly my question was..would a 9 volt with 1 wire to each terminal with aligator clip on each wire with a peice of steel wool clipped into each 1 burn hot enough and long enough to ignite aerosol or gunpowder. Idk why my question is missing and im really hoping for a quick answer on my problem and question.

Hello, How many people have been approached by Miss Monica through the Instructables' comments section ? hello My name is miss monica I am interested in your friendship . . .. I am waiting for your mail Remember the distance or color does not matter, but love matter a lot in life . . . etc. She seems like a polite and delightful young lady: however I didn't dare go onto her website. FOH

Reasonably sure there's something not right at hand here, I happened to notice that I have more burning question patches than I remember and I'm missing a newsletter patch on profile, not sure if that's all but I suspect that burning questions are taking over my whole profile...
I happened to noticed this about the time I got a yummy cookie from fungus there...

On Sunday, I posted an ible here; https://www.instructables.com/id/The-Cordless-Drill-Press/ and it's not showing up. Not sure if it's something I did on my end as there was a strange glitch when I was using the photo editor.

Hi guys, Basically foofys Comment is how I Feel: It's a shame really, eventually he will resist the temptation to see what's been made, and the jealousy will boil up and regret annoy him. He will miss the Kinetic Rifle, automatic weapons etc. Sooo Im gonna stay stay and comment like twice a week. I Bet DJ Will troll on me for doing this ;) Please Tell Everyoneeeeeee BYEEEEE

I had an encouraging comment and a reply on my instructable: https://www.instructables.com/id/Cream-Pudding-with-Chocolate-Sauce-Eggless/ After I changed my main picture the comments are not to be seen. Do help me out. Thank You

FYI,I noticed what seems to be a missing link on the one of the "How to Use the Instructables Editor" pages. The url is: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Use-the-In...The missing link is in the first bullet at the bottom of the page:1) A simple guide for creating an all-around great Instructable can be found here.2) Photos are one of the most important aspects of your Instructable. This Instructable is full of helpful tips and techniques to make your photos look their best. 3) Want to get your Instructable featured? Here's a list of what we look for to keep in mind when documenting your next project! 4) A collection full of additional photography, writing, SEO and other resources can be found here!Let me know if you have any questions.

well i havea 40 gb hdd i want to install windows on i have to do it soon because windows is getting rid of support for win xp sp2. i have tried getting it to boot via usb but when i set it to boot from usb it said remove all media... and wouldnt let me go on until i removed the usb i was trying to boot from any ideas?

In my most recent ible. I had 19 pics with photo captions. Only 4 showed up with the captions. The rest nada. Why did my captions disappear . I have never had that happen before. Is this a bug or just my good luck?

I published an ible 5/31 and only 4 out of 19 pics had the captions show up. Posted a bug in forums about it and now it is gone. Posted a question about the forums disappearance and seems it is gone now as well. So this question is about all of these mysterious happenings here on Instructabes. What has happened to my posts and pic captions?

I won third place in the dyeing for color contest a few weeks ago. I filled out all of the paperwork instructables sent me and received 'most' of the prize. However when the box came, it was missing the 12 white cotton bandanas. I have messaged the contest manager, and service@instructables, but neither has returned my messages. What do I do to get the missing part of my prize?

Hi As usual, every morning I start my Chrome browser with gmail and instructables tabs. This morning I was looking for the recent i'bles, to find out the "Recent" button is missing from the drop-down Explore menu. I suppose this is happening because of long i'bles titles in the Recent list. Most probably the "Explore" menu have a fixed dimension. Thanks, w.

Hello everyone When I open any profiles, I only get the overview link at the left side, there used to be other links like followers etc. Is there a reason that they are gone? Or is it a bug? Kind regards Laurens

My teacher's laptop booted up one day and gave the message "internal hard disk drive not found". The hard drive makes a kind of clickin clunking sound on startup. His college class files are on there, along with our yearbook. Any ideas?

I was browsing throught the forums one morning, and I notice the contests didn't have due dates. If I go to the main page, They come back. I go back here, and it says enter by blank again. Someone should notify somone.

So I just went to embed a video on one of my step-by-steps and couldn't find the "Embed" button. Actually, all of the rich editor features are gone. I get the same result with Chrome and Firefox. Is this a bug? Is the answer right under my nose? Do I have to be a PRO member to embed videos? Sorry if this is a re-post; I couldn't find any help in the forums.

Mouse Mouse was last seen on tour with us at Austin's SXSW earlier this week. He made lots of friends at Dorkbot on Saturday, but someone walked off with him while we were setting up at Sunday's PopSci party! Did he go on walkabout, join a punk band, or leave with a cute female Mouse Mouse? We hope so, but suspect he was simply abducted and can't contact us for help. If you have any information, please let us know! No kidding, I only made one1 and would really like to have him back. Drop me a note if you've got any news on his whereabouts. We'll take him back, no questions asked.1Yes, I can and will make another, but it's my art project, and therefore unique. (You may know how to make more children, but still want to keep the ones you've made.)

Hi, I noticed that the Halloween Draw & Paint It Contest with Sketchbook and the Halloween Photo Editing Contest with Pixlr entries are missing contest vote banners on the Instructables. Is this a new thing that we can only vote on the contest pages or a bug? I don't know if it is relevant, but I am using Windows 7 and Firefox 15.0.1.

I miss seeing who is pro and who isn't. I think knowing how someone else is experiencing the site makes a difference in responding to them. And I am sometimes able to offer free pro memberships to people, but it's harder if I can't tell who already has one. Just my 2 cents worth.....

Hi, I noticed, that the "view all" link to see all Instructables in a member profile is missing, when the person has more than 3 and less than six Instructables. I'm using Ubuntu 10.4 and Firefox 14.0.1, but I don't think it has to do with it because the same happens in other browsers and OS as well. Britt

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a missing feature (and hence this should became a suggestion), but if I'm not logged and I try to favorite an instructable, then the site will ask me to login. So far so good. But the callback on the instructable doesn't contain any information about the user action, and so it wasn't automatically favorited. I find this quite frustrating, since I'm not a big user and I'm usually not logged when I surf the site..

When I create a new instructable and go to assign the proper category, I see a dropdown menu limited to: food living outside play technology workshop I am looking for "health" but don't see it. Should "health" be on the category list? Thanks for any help.

OK, I'm off.Time to pack the car, off to my parents' for just over a week.I'll be online occasionally, but nowhere near as much as at the moment.Behave yourselves while I'm away.Don't forget to vote wisely in the Pocket Sized contest, and good luck in whatever the new contest is.

From the Knex section of the site, many members are dissapointed at the loss of the 'rating' filter. Instructable's rating system makes the very best stand out, due to not being based on percentage, and mow they are being shrouded in darkness. Could we please have the rating filter back?

This is the first time I've logged on to Instructables in what seems like a really long time. I've just been really busy with school and practice so I haven't really had the opportunity to be on in a while.
I was just wondering if anyone else went through periods where they were off the website for a while then came back?

This seems like it should be a very simple bug, but it's also very frustrating, as I currently can't post a comment anywhere. I type something into a comment box, hit the Post button, and it pops up with 'Missing Comment Text'. I first tried as a reply to a comment on my own Instructable, and I double checked with a comment on my own, a comment on someone else's, and reply to a comment on someone else's, and nothing worked. I cannot post comments or replies anywhere. I think I ran into this problem a few months ago but it didn't bother me as much back then. I am running Safari v.7 on OSX v.10.9 Just checked with google chrome; and it worked. In light of that, I'm guessing it's just something in Safari's Preferences that I don't know about. Anyway, let me know, because I'm sure this has happened to someone else before.

.. fa lalalala la la la la! OK folks, I'm off to the wilds of Northern England in about 18 hours from the time of typing, spending Christmas with relatives who don't really grok modern technology, so my access to the inter tubes will be sporadic. Just in case I don't get online before then, I'd just like to wish you all the best for whichever version of the season you choose to celebrate. Whether you are celebrating with family, friends, I wish you a relaxing time with your loved ones. If you are celebrating alone, I wish you a hug from a stranger and a phone call from a distant friend. If they don't phone you, you should phone them, just to wish them a happy holiday, and to remind them that they are in your thoughts. The tree was posted on Laughing Squid. EDIT OK, so I didn't end up missing so much, but I will definitely be offline for the next 24+ hours. Happy Holliers, one and all!

I noticed that many comments are missing from this Instructable: https://www.instructables.com/id/Rideable-Segway-Clone-Low-Cost-and-Easy-Build/ The oldest comment I see now is 21 days old. There are many comments missing from earlier... Specifically, it looks like 20 days of comments are missing starting from the launch of this Instructatble. Any idea what's wrong?

After posting my most recent "Instructable" https://www.instructables.com/id/Pro-Style-Jump-Rope/ I received a couple of comments and responded to them. Later I made a couple of edits to my instructable and the comments disappeared. Where did they go? Can they be restored?

I published an instructable on Playing Free Online Games Offline several days ago, and it still hasn't come out. They say it's supposed to take up to 24 hours but mine has already taken 3 times that long! Any idea what's going on here?
The picture is the one with the odd instructable.

I've been a member for 5 years and always used to login using facebook. That now appears to not be an option, but I can still use the email to login, however my favorites list is empty, though when viewing an instructable I know to have favorited, is still shows as a favorite. What the hell.

Https://www.instructables.com/id/Super-Brite-LED-Sneakers-10/ Hi, the linked file in my instructable (the .pde at the bottom) is not linking to the correct file. It's spitting out some unknown thing. Could you please fix it? J

User tomatoskins commented on my instructible a few days ago then when I edited my 'ible due to some mistake (I left out a number) and when I checked how my'ible was doing after editing The comments were gone. How can I make them go back?

I tried to add new photos to a published instructable and now the text for the introduction is replaced with code that starts. {"context":{"footer-robot":{},"you-image":{},"spinner": Is there any way to get the content back? I'm Using Firefox 42.0 on Lubuntu The URL is https://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Three-Piece-Flat-Pack-Christmas-Tree/ Thanks

I published a Instructable yesterday, and on my "You" page it said I had 2 Instructables, but now I log in and it only says one. I'm very angry because I spent a lot of time making it but now it disappeared. Does anybody know what is happening?

A few weeks ago i published an instructable(the Pyro System) and it remained unpublished for several days. eventually it just dissapeared from everywhere and the link i was given said it had been removed by the author(me) which i had not done.
but on halloween i remade the instructable and republished it. it remained unpublished until today when just a couple of minutes ago, it too was deleated and cannot be found anywhere.
please help.

Hi! I posted this yesterday and got this direct link, which shows perfectly (https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-Colt-Western-Pistol-i-3-4-hours/) but my post doesn't show and can not be search. What's wrong..? My other instructable (https://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Mechanical-Table-Pinball/) has 350 views, but no comments and no likes. Well when i compare this post to others I kind of wonder, if the rating system is broken on my post..?

What happened to Groups?They still exist--you can still add your instructable to a group.The only way I could search or explore Groups was to click "Groups" on my personal page, then on the "Join other Groups" link at the bottom of the page. I couldn't find another way in (other than the advanced Search function.)There doesn't seem to be a simple or straight-forward way to access them otherwise... I sure don't see a way to create a new one (not that a little weeding-out of the existing groups isn't called for.)Edit: Oh, wait, I see it--you can Submit a new group.But a lot of casual users probably aren't even aware they exist...